Make space and take a chance to reflect on loss with beautiful musical lamentations from Lorde, Henry Purcell, Phoria, Griff and more.
Gaming addict Baby Queen mixes a playlist to make you feel invincible, featuring tracks from Deus Ex, Zelda Wind Waker and The First Tree.
Join the Gameplay community at The Student Room to share stories about your favourite gaming soundtracks. Search The Student Room x Gameplay to be part of the conversation.
Two concerts from the 2020 Ascona Music Weeks festival in Switzerland, featuring Bach's Violin Partita No 3, Brahms's Piano Quartet No 3 and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Presented by Catriona Young.
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Nils Monkemeyer (viola), Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Jorg Widmann (clarinet), Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Francesco Piemontesi (piano)
Piano Sonata in E minor, H.
Andrea Dankova (soprano), Jana Sykorova (alto), Tomas Juhas (tenor), Jozef Benci (bass), Ales Barta (organ), Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tomas Netopil (conductor)
Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
Mirrors – Music by Graun, Handel, Telemann, etc.
Henrich Schütz is one of the most important composers before JS Bach. But with over 500 surviving works and despite his pivotal position as the first German composer to achieve international fame and repute, Schütz is perhaps still not as well known as he should be. Kirsten Gibson surveys recorded collections of the 17th-century composer and recommends the best one for anyone unfamiliar with his music.
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
Born in Paris in 1835, Camille Saint-Saëns's long and prolific life came to an end in Algiers in December, 100 years ago. A 34-CD box set of his works has been released to mark the centenary and Francophile Jeremy Sams has spent the last month sifting through it.
60 years of West Side Story film... and Spielberg new blockbuster
Six decades after the original film, director Steven Spielberg's new production of West Side Story is due to be released in cinemas this Friday. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the iconic 1961 film and looking forward to the current reception this modern-day Romeo and Juliet story, Tom Service speaks to the Hollywood director and to the new Maria, Rachel Zegler, as well as to arranger David Newman and choreographer Justin Peck. Also in the programme Jamie Bernstein about her father's involvement in this now classic musical and the tenor José Carreras, talking to Tom about the historic 1985 recording of West Side Story, the first complete recording of the piece with Bernstein conducting.
Jess Gillam with... Erland Cooper
Jess Gillam chats to composer Erland Cooper about the music they love, with music by Peter Maxwell Davies, The Pixies, Florence Price and Boards of Canada.
Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin; I. Prelude [Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez]
CPE Bach - Sonata In A Minor For Oboe Solo Wq. 132: I Poco Adagio [Branford Marsalis]
Soosan Lolavar is a British-Iranian composer and researcher. Today on Inside Music, she discovers how composers like Janǎćek, Philip Glass and Ligeti often revisit their best ideas.
Soosan also describes the way her recent treatment for cancer has changed her relationship with music, forging deeper connections with the works of Mahler, Sibelius and Beethoven.
And she also finds how a performance by the legendary Iranian singer Mohammadreza Shajarian conjures moments of freedom, wild horses and the folk traditions of Sicily.
A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.
Louise Blain explores some of the fabulous music composed for multiplayer video games. And today's cut-scene features an interview with the composers of the global sensation Destiny 2: New Light, Michael Salvatori and Skye Lewin.
Lopa Kothari explores with Mary Ann Kennedy the stories of some of the key female Scots Gaelic singers of the last century, including Mary MacPherson, Frances Tolmie and Jessie MacLachlan, as well as contemporary Gaelic performers inspired by their legacy. Plus music from the Ivory Coast, Brazil and Peru.
Julian Joseph presents the best in jazz – past, present and future with live music from piano virtuoso Nikki Yeoh recorded on the J to Z Presents stage at The Barbican as part of this year's London Jazz Festival.
Also in the programme, drummer Femi Koleoso, leader of the award-winning London-based group Ezra Collective, shares some of the music that has inspired his musical journey, touching on jazz, Afrobeat and beyond.
The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the Underworld, has inspired composers since opera’s earliest days. Contemporary American composer Matthew Aucoin now carries that tradition into the 21st century with a new take on the story. With a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from her acclaimed 2003 play, the opera reimagines the familiar tale from Eurydice’s point of view.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this New York Metropolitan Opera premiere production to launch the 2021-22 season of broadcasts from the Met. Soprano Erin Morley sings the title role, opposite baritone Joshua Hopkins as Orpheus and countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński as his otherworldly alter-ego. Bass-baritone Nathan Berg is Eurydice’s father and fellow resident of the underworld, with tenor Barry Banks as Hades himself.
Highlights of the 2021-22 season of broadcasts from the New York Metropolitan Opera include Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones - the first opera by an African American composer to be performed at the Met (8 January 2022), three Puccini favourites - Tosca (11 December 2021), La Boheme (29 January 2022) and Turandot (7 May 2022), Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (19 February 2022), the French-language version of Verdi’s Don Carlos (26 March 2022) and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (30 April 2022).
Tom Service presents highlights from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, which took place last month.
Exciting international new music from first-class performers, and interviews with the featured composers, all recorded at the UK's leading festival of new music. The programme includes performances from Zubin Kanga and the London Sinfonietta and the UK premiere of a major new work by the festival's composer-in-residence, Chaya Czernowin, 'Fabrication of Light' performed by Ensemble MusikFabrik.
SUNDAY 05 DECEMBER 2021
SUN 00:00 Freeness (m00126tx)
Sonic Currents
Corey Mwamba presents exciting new contemporary music. Taking inspiration from the conceptual Australian sculptor Ken Unsworth, sound artist and composer Kate Moore offers a sound that plays with stillness and movement, fluidity and structure - pulling and pushing sonic currents between these states with gentle builds and refined subtlety. Driven by ritual and the energy of fire, Spanish duo Agustí Fernández and Amidea Clotet explore what it means to set themselves alight with creative inspiration - responding spontaneously to stimuli and without waiting for permission to create a freewheeling ride of frenetic soundscapes.
Also in the programme, the South African multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Jiyani extends the motif of Herbie Hancock’s Suite for Angela. Stretching and tapping into that tribute to the activist Angela Davis through the prism of jazz-funk, Jiyani takes a global view of the experiences of black women through space and time across the Black Atlantic.
Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m00126tz)
Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Nos 1-4
From Shanghai, violinist Ning Feng and pianist Jonie Huang play Beethoven's Violin Sonatas Nos 1-4. Catriona Young presents.
01:01 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, op. 12/1
Ning Feng (violin), Jonie Huang (piano)
01:22 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, op. 12/2v
Ning Feng (violin), Jonie Huang (piano)
01:39 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor, op. 23
Ning Feng (violin), Jonie Huang (piano)
02:00 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Violin Sonata No. 3 in E flat, op. 12/3
Jonie Huang (piano), Ning Feng (violin)
02:18 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Violin Sonata No. 6 in A, op. 30/1
Ning Feng (violin), Jonie Huang (piano)
02:26 AM
Johann Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Symphony no.2 in D minor 'Fatum'
Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Josep Caballe-Domenech (conductor)
03:01 AM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Missa in duplicibus minoribus II
Maitrise de Garcons de Colmar, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Ensemble Cantus Figuratus der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Dominique Vellard (director)
03:35 AM
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Piano Sonata in E major, Op 6
Sveinung Bjelland (piano)
03:59 AM
Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799)
Concerto Grosso in D minor (Op.3 No.2)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
04:11 AM
Matthias Schmitt (b.1958)
Ghanaia for percussion
Colin Currie (percussion)
04:18 AM
David Popper (1843-1913)
Hungarian rhapsody, Op 68
Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
04:26 AM
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Varnatt (Spring Night)
Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Skold (conductor)
04:35 AM
William Lawes (1602-1645)
Suite a 4 in G minor
Concordia, Mark Levy (conductor)
04:42 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo No.3 in C sharp (Op.39)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)
04:49 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Symphony for strings in B flat. (Wq.182 No.2)
Barbara Jane Gilby (violin), Barbara Jane Gilby (director), Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Lancaster (harpsichord)
05:01 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Overture, L'Isola disabitata
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rolf Gupta (conductor)
05:09 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (S.162)
Janina Fialkowska (piano)
05:18 AM
Bernat Vivancos (b.1973)
Salve d'ecos
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava (conductor)
05:28 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in F major (RV.442) for treble recorder
Michael Schneider (recorder), Camerata Koln
05:36 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Alan Civil (arranger)
Suite for Brass Quintet
Brass Consort Koln
05:47 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Violin Sonata in A minor (Op.1 No.4) (HWV.362)
Tomaz Lorenz (violin), Jerko Novak (guitar)
05:57 AM
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Suite No.4 in G major, Op 61, 'Mozartiana'
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kazuhiro Koizumi (conductor)
06:21 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Estampes for piano
Roger Woodward (piano)
06:36 AM
Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 89
Joze Kotar (clarinet), Slovenian Philharmonic String Quartet
SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m00126v1)
Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m00126v3)
Sarah Walker with an enchanting musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, Sarah enjoys some shimmering delights for chilly dark days, with a traditional Advent carol sung by The Sixteen and the twinkling orchestral colours of Johan Svendsen’s Norwegian Rhapsody.
She also plays some plaintive piano ballads by Brahms to ease us into the morning, and a piano nocturne by Teresa Carreño looks back on a childhood in Caracas.
Plus, a Gregorian Christmas musical mystery…
A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m00126v5)
Hayley Mills
In a warm and frank interview Hayley Mills talks to Michael Berkeley about the joys and difficulties of growing up in Hollywood as a child star and about the music that reminds her of her family.
Hayley Mills was described by Walt Disney as ‘the greatest movie find in 25 years’. After winning a BAFTA at the age of just 12 in the British crime thriller Tiger Bay alongside her father, John Mills, she was signed up by Disney for a six-movie deal which included The Parent Trap, In Search of the Castaways and Pollyanna - for which she won an Oscar in 1961.
In a career spanning more than six decades Hayley Mills has gone on to work all over the world in films, television and on stage, and she has just published a memoir of her early life called Forever Young.
She tells Michael why she was unable to collect her Oscar, and about the agonies her parents suffered trying to decide whether or not she should sign with Disney and the pressures of juggling a double life between Hollywood and a chilly English boarding school.
And she talks frankly about suffering from bulimia as a teenager, the problem of her mother’s drinking, and how her life changed for ever at the age of 21, when she had to hand over almost all her childhood earnings to the Inland Revenue.
A proud mother of two sons and grandmother of five, Hayley Mills chooses music by Tchaikovsky, by Mendelssohn and by Bach, which reminds her of her sister, the actor Juliet Mills; of her mother, the screenwriter Mary Hayley Bell; and of her partner, the actor Firdous Bamji.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0012107)
Amatis Trio
Established in Amsterdam in 2014, the Amatis Trio - former Radio 3 New Generation Artists - perform two works by composers writing in their youth. Shostakovich was 16 and still a student at the St Petersburg Conservatoire when he composed his First Piano Trio. Brahms was barely out of his teens when he turned his attention to this combination of instruments, resulting in a remarkably mature work.
From Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 1 in C minor, Op 8
Brahms: Piano Trio No 1 in B, Op 8
Amatis Trio
SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (m00126v7)
Robert Fayrfax - 500th Anniversary
One of the most influential composers during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, Robert Fayrfax died 500 years ago this year. Lucie Skeaping is joined by Professor Magnus Williamson of Newcastle University to unpack the details of Fayrfax's life and his extraordinary music.
SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m00120zh)
Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
From Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace.
Introit: Veni, redemptor gentium (Andrew Smith)
Responses: Tomkins
Office hymn: Hark! a herald voice is calling (Merton)
Psalms 6, 7, 8 (Purcell, Turner, Garrett, Soaper, Parratt)
First Lesson: Isaiah 65 v.17 – 66 v.2
Canticles: The Sixth Service (Weelkes)
Second Lesson: Matthew 24 vv.1-14
Anthem: Vigilate (Byrd)
Hymn: Thou whose almighty word (Moscow)
Voluntary: A Fancy (Byrd)
Carl Jackson (Director of Music)
Rufus Frowde (Organist)
Recorded 19 October 2021.
SUN 16:00 Jazz Record Requests (m00126v9)
Your Sunday jazz soundtrack
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, with tracks this week from Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons.
SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (m0001ss8)
The Nutcracker - Strange Enchantments
Think of The Nutcracker as a super-saccharine classic for the feel-good season? Think again. Is everything really all sweetness and light in the world of sugar-plum fairy? No! But don't let the tale's dark undertones spoil your enjoyment of the wonderful music.
Tom Service tears the gaudy wrapping paper from Tchaikovsky's balletic masterpiece to remind us you don't always get what you want. Behind the tinsel and fluffy snowflakes lies a story imbued with darkness and death. But maybe that is the secret of its unfading allure and beauty.
Tom is joined by Marina Frolova-Walker and Peggy Reynolds to crack the most popular nut in the repertoire.
SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m0007q5q)
Life Rafts
An unstable wooden platform, an ark, a honey jar: rafts can make the difference between life and death. Yann Martel won the Booker Prize for his novel Life of Pi, tracing the journey made by an Indian Tamil boy and a tiger and a stage version has just opened in London; Edward Lear's The Jumblies set to sea in a sieve; Théodore Géricault interviewed some of the survivors after a French frigate ran aground off Mauritania - their experiences of starvation, dehydration and cannibalism became an international scandal which he depicted in his 1819
painting The Raft of the Medusa, described by Julian Barnes in A History of the World in 10½ Chapters; in 1947 the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl made headlines travelling by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands; Dina Nayeri fled Iran as an asylum seeker and her book The Ungrateful Refugee charts experiences of immigration which are making headlines now. We also travel on the water with Winnie the Pooh, Huckleberry Finn, Noah and ants observed by Edward O. Wilson. Our music ranges across David Fanshawe, Baaba Maal, Benjamin Britten, Joao Gilberto, Elena Kats-Chernin and Herbie Hancock. The readers are Alia Alzougbi and Shaun Mason.
READINGS:
Mary Coleridge - I Had a Boat
Thor Heyerdahl - The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Raft Across the South Seas
R M Ballantyne - Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships
Michael Rosen - The Raft
Anne Carson - Short Talk on the Total Collection
Julian Barnes - A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
Ken Thompson - Where do Camels Belong by Ken Thompson
Alfred Russel Wallace - The Geographical Distribution of Animals
Rachel Rooney - Survival Advice from a Caterpillar
Robert Crawford - Crannog
Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson - The Ants
Dina Nayeri - The Ungrateful Refugee
Daniel Trilling - Lights in the Distance
A A Milne - Winnie the Pooh
Edward Lear - The Jumblies
Yann Martel - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Emily Dickinson - “'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers’
Sir Ernest Shackleton - South!
Kathleen Jamie - The Blue Boat
Lola Ridge - Interim
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn
James Carter - Who Cares? (by permission of the poet and published in Weird, Wild and Wonderful by James Carter (Otter-Barry Books 2021)
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
01
00:01:00 David Fanshawe
Journey to Easter Island
Performer: Conche Horn/Guitar Link
Duration 00:01:52
02
00:01:16 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer (artist)
Kon-Tiki Expedition - Across the Pacific by Raft - an anthropological experiment.
Performer: Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer
Duration 00:00:39
03
00:01:55 David Fanshawe
The Singing Reef, Cook Islands
Performer: N/A
Duration 00:02:43
04
00:02:23
Mary Coleridge
I Had a Boat, read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:22
05
00:03:23
Thor Heyerdahl
Independence Day from ' The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Raft Across the South Seas', read by Shaun Mason
Duration 00:01:05
06
00:04:30 Rachel Portman
Written in the Stars
Performer: Ezio Pinza
Duration 00:01:11
07
00:05:41
Thor Heyerdahl on the Kon-Tiki Expedition 09 December 1952
Duration 00:00:42
08
00:06:09 Herbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage
Performer: Herbie Hancock (piano), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), George Coleman (tenor saxophone), Ron Carter (bass), Tony Williams (drums)
Duration 00:07:43
09
00:13:56
R. M. Ballantyne
First Rafts from ' Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships', read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:56
10
00:14:54
Michael Rosen
The Raft, read by Shaun Mason
Duration 00:01:38
11
00:16:32 Lorre Wyatt
Somos El Barco (We Are The Boat)
Performer: Holly Near / Arlo Guthrie / Ronnie Gilbert / Pete Seeger (Harp)
Duration 00:02:14
12
00:18:47
Anne Carson
Short Talk on the Total Collection, read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:31
13
00:19:18 Benjamin Britten
Noye, Noye, take thou thy company - Noyes Fludde, All Aboard
Performer: Donald Maxwell, Richard Pasco, Coull String Quartet, members of the Ednymion Ensemble, Alan Harwood (organ)
Duration 00:01:23
14
00:20:41 Benjamin Britten
Sir! Heare are lions, leapardes, in - Noyes Fludde, All Aboard
Performer: Donald Maxwell, Richard Pasco, Coull String Quartet, members of the Ednymion Ensemble, Alan Harwood (organ)
Duration 00:00:19
15
00:21:00
by Julian Barnes
Selection of the Animals from 'A History of the World in 10½ Chapters', read by Shaun Mason
Duration 00:01:42
16
00:22:44 Krunnfusz, Gordon/Traditional
Ol' Ark's A Moverin
Performer: Côr Meibion Trelawnyd
Duration 00:01:16
17
00:24:01 Elena Kats‐Chernin
Blue Silence
Performer: Acacia Quartet: Lisa Stewart (Violin), Myee Clohessy (Violin), Stefan Duwe (Viola), Anna Martin-Scrase (Cello)
Duration 00:05:37
18
00:26:35
Ken Thompson
Long-distance animal dispersal from 'Where do Camels Belong', read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:41
19
00:27:36
Alfred Russel Wallace
Vegetation Rafts from 'The Geographical Distribution of Animals', read by Shaun Mason
Duration 00:00:58
20
00:28:48
Rachel Rooney
Survival Advice from a Caterpillar, read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:51
21
00:29:39 Ildebrando Pizzetti
De Profundis
Performer: Westminster Cathedral Choir, James ODonnell (Conductor)
Duration 00:01:28
22
00:31:08
Robert Crawford
Crannog read by Shaun Mason
Duration 00:00:55
23
00:32:04 Cyril Francis Tawney
Chicken on a Raft
Performer: The Young Tradition
Duration 00:02:06
24
00:34:11 Walter Tschinkel (Prof. Biology, Florida State Uni.) on the black imported fire ant in 1918 from Argentina and red (Solenopsis invicta) mid '30s (artist)
Mark Carwardine investigates spread of red imported fire ant in US.
Performer: Walter Tschinkel (Prof. Biology, Florida State Uni.) on the black imported fire ant in 1918 from Argentina and red (Solenopsis invicta) mid '30s
Duration 00:01:12
25
00:35:24 Newton Ferreira De Mendonca, Antonio Carlos Jobim
Samba De Uma Nota So (One Note Samba)
Performer: João Gilberto
Duration 00:01:34
26
00:36:25
Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
Fire Ant Rafts from 'The Ants', read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:31
27
00:36:59
Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
Fire Ant Rafts from 'The Ants', read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:09
28
00:37:09 Benjamin Britten
O Waly, Waly
Performer: Dame Sarah Connolly
Duration 00:03:36
29
00:40:46 Lili Boulanger
Du fond de labime (Psalm 130)
Performer: J J Grunenwald, organ; Chorale Elisabeth Brasseur, Orchestre Lamourex; Igor Markevitch (Conductor)
Duration 00:04:45
30
00:41:24
Dina Nayeri
One nights journey from 'The Ungrateful Refugee', read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:01:02
31
00:42:31
Daniel Trilling
Another nights journey from 'Lights in the Distance', read by Shaun Mason
Duration 00:01:10
32
00:45:38 Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
Exiles Song
Performer: Ewan MacColl
Duration 00:00:26
33
00:46:05 Baaba Maal
Bouyel (The Boat)
Performer: Baaba Maal
Duration 00:04:11
34
00:50:18
A. A. Milne
The Escape from 'Winnie the Pooh', read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:48
35
00:51:07 Träd
Lord, Let Me in the Lifeboat
Performer: Bunk Johnson-Sidney Bechet and their Orchestra
Duration 00:03:12
36
00:51:49
Edward Lear
The Jumblies (extract), read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:01:10
37
00:54:20
Yann Martel
Survival Manual from 'Life of Pi', read by Shaun Mason
Duration 00:01:17
38
00:55:37 Ezio Bosso
Adagio "White Ocean" (Antarctic)
Performer: Relja Lukic (cello), Orchestra Filarmonica '900 del teatro Regio di Torino; Ezio Bosso (Conductor)
Duration 00:02:58
39
00:56:29
Emily Dickinson
'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers, read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:28
40
00:57:59
Sir Ernest Shackleton
On board the James Caird from 'South! - the story of Shackletons last expedition 19141917', read by Shaun Mason
Duration 00:01:30
41
00:58:36 Howard Goodall
Shackletons Cross
Performer: Howard Goodall
Duration 00:03:11
42
01:01:51
Kathleen Jamie
The Blue Boat, read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:17
43
01:02:10 Joan Armatrading
Save Me
Performer: Joan Armatrading
Duration 00:03:32
44
01:05:46
Lola Ridge
Interim, read by Alia Alzougbi
Duration 00:00:21
45
01:06:02 Johann Strauss II
Cool Runnings: The Blue Danube
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Duration 00:07:40
46
01:06:46
Mark Twain
Star watching from 'Huckleberry Finn', read by Shaun Mason
Duration 00:00:42
47
01:12:50
James Carter
Who Cares?, read by Alia Alzougbi - by permission of James Carter (from the forthcoming Weird, Wild and Wonderful - Otter-Barry Books, 2021)
Duration 00:00:38
SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m00126vd)
In Search of the Sublime
As the Alps undergo visible changes due to climate warming, we follow artist and Royal Academician Emma Stibbon to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in France.
Emma works primarily in drawing and print on paper depicting fragile environments that are undergoing transformation. She does this through location-based research often working alongside geologists and scientists.
Whilst conducting her own fieldwork in Chamonix, Emma explores the rich history of British landscape artists who came to the region in search of sublime views. With crampons and ice axe, she hikes up the Mer de Glace glacier on the Mont Blanc Massif with Jean-Franck Charlet, a sixth-generation Chamonix guide, to sketch in the same spots as JMW Turner on his 1802 tour. Rather than a sea of magnificent white seracs, she witnesses the stark retreat of the glaciers. However, at the top of the Aiguille du Midi - 12,500 feet up - the spiky, cinematic, saw-tooth granite peaks still take our breath away.
The Alps played a key role in the development of the sublime in the late 18th and early 19th century. Chamonix became a mecca for tourists, mountaineers, and scientists; in 2021 the Compagnie des Guides - the world's oldest guiding association - celebrates its 200th year. Romantic artists, poets and writers also flocked here on the tourist trail, in search of ghostly glaciers and majestic peaks. We learn that these historical depictions of the Mer de Glace are being used by glaciologists in modern-day research.
The Romantics sought to evoke a mixture of awe and terror in their depictions of nature, but the viewer was usually situated in a position of safety. Painters represented man as small and powerless in the face of Nature's great majesty. However, in a 21st-century sublime, Emma argues, we can no longer look out on nature with assurance, due to a critically changing climate; we are now firmly situated within the danger. But perhaps today the emotional power of art can be used to move hearts and minds when science alone cannot.
Reader: Ruth Sillers
Produced by Victoria Ferran and Susan Marling
Exec Producer: Sara Jane Hall
SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m000cm58)
Winter Solstice
by Roland Schimmelpfennig.
A comic, unsettling and timely play by Germany's most performed contemporary playwright.
It's Christmas Eve in the flat where unhappy arty intellectuals Albert and Bettina live with their little daughter Marie.
Bettina's difficult mother Corinna has come to stay, and worse still Corinna has invited Rudolph, a total stranger.
Not only that, but Rudolph has some rather uncomfortable views...
Albert .... Sam Troughton
Bettina ..... Clare Corbett
Corinna .... Susan Brown
Rudolph ..... David Haig
Konrad ..... Christopher Harper
Voice ..... Sinead MacInnes
Writer, Roland Schimmelpfennig
Translator, David Tushingham
Pianist, Chris Lee
Director, Abigail le Fleming
Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most produced European playwrights, and his plays have been translated into over twenty languages. His play PUSH UP (Royal Court 2002) presented a corporate culture where cut-throat employees oust their cut-throat bosses to get to the top. ARABIAN NIGHT (Soho Theatre, 2002) unpicked the psyche of modern, multicultural cities, where myths intermingle and identities entangle. THE GOLDEN DRAGON (Traverse, 2011), set in a Chinese takeaway, won the Mülheim Dramatists Prize and has had more than twenty productions worldwide. WINTER SOLSTICE itself was on at The Orange Tree Theatre in 2017. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest playwriting award in Germany, the Else Lasker Schüler Prize, in honour of his entire oeuvre.
SUN 21:30 Record Review Extra (m00126vg)
Kirsten Gibson's Schutz
Hannah French offers listeners a chance to hear at greater length the recordings reviewed and discussed in yesterday’s Record Review, including highlights from reviewer Kirsten Gibson's Building a Library survey of the music of Heinrich Schütz.
SUN 23:00 Music's Inner Vision (m00126vj)
2/2 Performance
In the second of two programmes, singer Victoria Oruwari explores blind or partially-sighted performers across the ages
Blind herself, Victoria reveals how she and other blind musicians encounter, learn and perform music without actually being able to see the notes. Accessibility pioneer Louis Braille was himself an accomplished concert organist and invented a system of musical notation just as ground-breaking as his alpha-numerical language
Featuring music from Baluji Shrivastav's Inner Vision Orchestra, Paraorchestra, organist Angella Purll and pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii
MONDAY 06 DECEMBER 2021
MON 00:00 Classical Fix (m000xkdb)
Jack Guinness
Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week, Linton is joined by writer, model, presenter and founder of the Queer Bible, Jack Guinness.
Jack's playlist:
Jean Baptiste Lully - Le Divertissement Royal de Versailles
Wendy Carlos - Afterlife
Francis Poulenc - Sonata for 2 Clarinets
Gavin Higgins - Dark Arteries: These Scars Across Your Heart
Samuel Barber - String Quartet in B Major (Adagio)
Ethel Smyth - The March of the Women (from Songs of Sunrise)
Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.
01
00:03:56 Jean‐Baptiste Lully
Le Divertissement Royal de Versailles, LWV 38 - Danse de Neptune
Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King
Conductor: Jordi Savall
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations
Duration 00:03:47
02
00:07:44 Wendy Carlos
Afterlife
Performer: Wendy Carlos
Duration 00:03:51
03
00:11:35 Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Two Clarinets, Op. 7 - III. Vif
Performer: Michael Collins
Performer: Sérgio Pires
Duration 00:02:27
04
00:14:02 Gavin Higgins
Dark Arteries - These Scars Across Your Heart
Ensemble: Tredegar Town Band
Duration 00:05:47
05
00:19:49 Samuel Barber
String Quartet, Op. 11 - ii. Adagio
Ensemble: Endellion Quartet
Duration 00:03:43
06
00:23:31 Dame Ethel Smyth
Smyth: Songs of Sunrise: No. 3, The March of the Women
Singer: Eiddwen Harrhy
Choir: Chorus of the Plymouth Music Series
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Plymouth Music Series
Conductor: Philip Brunelle
Duration 00:04:28
MON 00:30 Through the Night (m00126vl)
Psalm settings by Claudio Monteverdi, Salomone Rossi and Elam Rotem
A concert at the Thüringia Bach Festival in Arnstadt on the theme of '1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany and 900 years in Thüringia'. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Lamnatseah al hagitit (psalm 8)
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
12:34 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Shir hama' alot (psalm 128)
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
12:37 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Simfonia prima a 5
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
12:39 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Beatus vir qui timet Dominum (psalm 112)
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
12:47 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Laudate Dominum (psalm 150)
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
12:51 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
O quam pulchra es
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
12:55 AM
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Laudate Dominum (psalm 116)
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
01:00 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Simfonia quinta
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
01:03 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Mizmor letodah (psalm 100)
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
01:05 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Haleluyah (psalm 146)
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
01:09 AM
Elam Rotem (b.1984)
Iti milevanon kala
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
01:17 AM
Elam Rotem (b.1984)
The lamentations of David
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
01:28 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Kaddish
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
01:32 AM
Salamone Rossi (1570-1630)
Hashkivenu
Profeti della Quinta, Elam Rotem (conductor)
01:36 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite for solo cello, no 5 in C minor (BWV.1011)
Guy Fouquet (cello)
02:05 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in E minor
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
02:16 AM
Gregorio Strozzi (1615-1687)
Five Works
Enrico Baiano (harpsichord)
02:31 AM
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony no 4 in E flat major "Romantic"
RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad (conductor)
03:33 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Gestillte Sehnsucht, for alto, viola and piano, Op 91 no 1
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo soprano), Lise Berthaud (viola), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
03:40 AM
Mayas Alyamani (1981-)
Warda
Shaher Fawaz (tabla), Daria Zappa Matesic (violin), Avi Avital (mandolin), Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Willi Zimmermann (conductor)
03:48 AM
Marcel Tournier (1879-1951)
Images for harp and string quartet, Op 35
Erica Goodman (harp), Amadeus Ensemble
03:59 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Suite No 2 in F major HWV 427
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
04:09 AM
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Bruit de Guerre
Hungarian Brass Ensemble
04:13 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Overture from Die Zauberflote (K 620)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Christie (conductor)
04:20 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for cello and piano (Op.66)
Miklos Perenyi (cello), Dezso Ranki (piano)
04:31 AM
Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez (1897-1948)
Second Suite Brasiliera
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
04:36 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Two Love Songs
Elmer Iseler Singers, Claire Preston (piano), Lydia Adams (director)
04:42 AM
Jakov Gotovac (1895-1982)
Symphonic Dance 'Kolo', Op 12
Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono (conductor)
04:51 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Luonnotar, Op 70
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
05:00 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto for 2 horns and orchestra in D major (TWV 52:D2)
Jozef Illes (horn), Jan Budzak (horn), Chamber Association of Slovakian Radio, Vlastimil Horak (conductor)
05:13 AM
Hyacinthe Jadin (1776-1800)
Trio no 4 in E flat, Op 2 no 1 (1797)
Trio AnPaPie
05:34 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La mer - three symphonic sketches (1902-05)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
05:57 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Fantasy in C major 'Wandererfantasie', D760
Paul Lewis (piano)
06:19 AM
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Overture to Prince Igor
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
MON 06:30 Breakfast (m00126x4)
Monday - Petroc's classical commute
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
MON 09:00 Essential Classics (m00126x9)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – this week we focus on five great pieces of music written for theatre productions.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
MON 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00126xf)
Mark-Anthony Turnage (b 1960)
Fame and Scandal
Donald Macleod talks to composer Mark-Anthony Turnage about his upbringing in 1980s Britain: a time of football, Thatcher, jazz…and one of the most talked-about operas of the late 20th century.
Mark-Anthony Turnage is a man with a reputation for shaking up the world of British classical music - a composer with a distinctive and rebellious creative voice. His work vividly fuses influences of jazz, soul and contemporary pop with music that remains boldly and defiantly avant-garde. It's music that packs a punch, yet whose visceral impact accompanies a deep lyricism and emotion. Over four decades, Turnage’s work has tackled social commentary: domestic violence, drug abuse, and the refugee crisis. But he’s also a composer with a subversive streak, with an opera exploring the life of former Playboy model Anna-Nicole Smith, and orchestral pieces inspired by his beloved Arsenal football club and pop superstar Beyoncé.
Turnage exploded onto the British music scene in his twenties with a series of works that both enthralled and scandalised the critics; most notably, his opera “Greek”, a reimagining of the Oedipus myth amongst the social inequality, football hooliganism and profanity of 1980s British life. He talks to Donald Macleod about its genesis, his deep love of soul music, and how a deeply personal loss led to the creation of his jazz-infused suite “Blood on the Floor”.
Greek (excerpt)
Act 1: Breakfast Quartet
Quentin Hayes, baritone (Eddy)
Fiona Kimm, mezzo (Wife)
Helen Charnock, soprano (Mum)
Richard Suart, baritone (Dad)
The Greek Ensemble
Richard Bernas, conductor
On Opened Ground (1st mvt)
Lawrence Power, viola
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Night Dances (3rd mvt, Nocturne)
Gareth Hulse, oboe & cor anglais; John Wallace, trumpet; Helen Tunstall, harp; John Constable, celesta
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen, conductor
Greek (excerpts)
Act 1: Prologue and Wine Bar Music
Act 2: Journey to the Sphinx…
Quentin Hayes, baritone (Eddy)
Fiona Kimm, mezzo (Wife, Doreen, Waitress 1, Sphinx 2)
Helen Charnock, soprano (Mum, Waitress 2, Sphinx 1)
Richard Suart, baritone (Dad, Café Manager, Chief of Police)
The Greek Ensemble
Richard Bernas, conductor
Three Farewells (All Will Be Well)
The Nash Ensemble
Blood on the Floor
Martin Robertson, bass clarinet
Peter Erskine, drums
Frank Ollu, horn
John Scofield, guitar
Dietmar Wiesner, flute
Uwe Dierksen, trombone
Bruce Nockles, trumpet
William Forman, trumpet
Martin Robertson, saxophones
Ensemble Modern
Peter Rundel, conductor
MON 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m00126xk)
Alim Beisembayev
Still only in his twenties, Alim Beisembayev won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in September 2021. He also took home the medici.tv Audience Prize and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for contemporary performance. Here, he performs one of the most formidable works in the piano's repertoire: Chopin's cycle of twenty-four preludes.
Live from London's Wigmore Hall.
Presented by Hannah French.
Clementi: Sonata in F sharp minor, Op 25 No 5
Chopin: Preludes, Op 28
Alim Beisembayev (piano)
MON 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m00126xp)
Monday - Ulster Orchestra Live
This week's programmes feature the BBC performing groups in live and recent concerts. Today includes a performance from the Ulster Orchestra and conductor Jessica Cottis, live from Ulster Hall in Belfast. Radio 3 New Generation Artist baritone William Thomas joins the orchestra for Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, before Sibelius's En Saga and Wagner's Forest Murmurs from Siegfried. Plus Bach's Viola da Gamba Sonata no.2 from former NGA Nicholas Altstaedt, and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings from the BBC Philharmonic.
Presented by Ian Skelly
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)
Bach: Sonata no.2 in D major BWV.1028 for viola da gamba
Nicholas Altstaedt (cello)
Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord)
c.
2.30pm
Ulster Orchestra – LIVE from Ulster Hall
Presented by John Toal
Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
Sibelius: En Saga
Wagner: Waldweben
William Thomas (baritone)
Ulster Orchestra
Jessica Cottis (conductor)
c.
3.30pm - Back to the studio with Ian Skelly
Eleanor Alberga Succubus Moon
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe)
Psophos Quartet
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op.48
BBC Philharmonic
Jack Liebeck (director)
MON 16:30 New Generation Artists (m00126xv)
James Newby and Timothy Ridout
James Newby sings Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs.
James Newby sang Barber's ten short songs, to texts attributed to Irish saints and holy persons, as part of a recital he gave at Wigmore Hall in February 2019. Also today, Timothy Ridout plays a Rhapsody by Elgar's great friend, William Henry Reed.
Barber: Hermit Songs Op. 29
James Newby (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
W.H. Reed: Rhapsody
Timothy Ridout (viola), James Baillieu (piano)
MON 17:00 In Tune (m00126y1)
Alexandra Dariescu, I Musicanti
Sean Rafferty is joined by double bassist Leon Bosch and his group I Musicanti, and by pianist Alexandra Dariescu.
MON 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m00126y8)
Classical music for your commute
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, including a flute sonata by Agricola, an opera duet by Mozart, a mass by Byrd, a Bach prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Germaine Tailleferre's piano trio, Shostakovich's Festive Overture, Villa-Lobos writing for the guitar... and a polka by Johann Strauss with a Latin salsa touch!
Producer: Juan Carlos Jaramillo
MON 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m00126yj)
Czech Philharmonic
Fiona Talkington presents a highlight of the European musical season, featuring the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Tomáš Netopil.
“I need not give an account of myself to anyone. Only to my own conscience and to our noble lady music,” the composer Josef Suk once said. His Fantasy in G minor for violin and orchestra shows Suk as a dramatic composer of music full of surprising turns and inner turmoil.
A very rarely played work by Suk’s and Dvořák’s contemporary Zdeněk Fibich - the Overture to his opera The Tempest - adds another glimpse into the rich world of Czech music of the fin-de-siecle. The Symphony No. 2 in E minor by Suk’s contemporary Sergei Rachmaninov completes the concert.
Zdeněk Fibich: The Tempest – Overture, Op. 46
Josef Suk: Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 24
Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Christian Tetzlaff violin
Czech Philharmonic
Tomáš Netopil conductor
Concert recorded as part of the Dvořák Prague Festival on Friday, September 10 at the Rudolfinum, Dvořák Hall, Prague.
MON 21:30 Northern Drift (m00126ys)
Andrew McMillan and Eliza Carthy
Elizabeth Alker celebrates north-facing music and writing at the Trades Club, in Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire. Her guests tonight are the folk singer Eliza Carthy with the melodeon player Saul Rose, and the multi-award-winning Barnsley-born poet Andrew McMillan.
MON 22:00 Music Matters (m00126td)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Saturday]
MON 22:45 The Essay (m00126z1)
Another Northern Ireland
Traybakes
Since its creation a century ago, perceptions of Northern Ireland have often been dominated by stories of conflict and political unrest. But as anyone who lives there or who has visited knows, it’s a picture that’s far from complete.
Five essayists reveal Another Northern Ireland in its centenary year - the idiosyncrasies of the everyday, hidden histories and untold stories which outsiders rarely get to hear about but which each of these writers inhabits, lives and understands.
Author Jan Carson talks about the women who kept her Presbyterian church supplied with tea and traybakes when she was growing up - and reveals what they taught her about finding her own voice.
Producers: Ophelia Byrne and Conor Garrett
MON 23:00 Night Tracks (m00126z6)
The late zone
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
TUESDAY 07 DECEMBER 2021
TUE 00:30 Through the Night (m00126zd)
Richard Strauss and Bartok from Lugano in Switzerland
Markus Poschner conducts the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in Richard Strauss's Suite in B flat and Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. With Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Suite in B flat, Op 4
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Markus Poschner (conductor)
12:56 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Markus Poschner (conductor)
01:28 AM
Hans Huber (1852-1921)
Cello Sonata no 4 in B flat major, Op 130
Esther Nyffenegger (cello), Desmond Wright (piano)
01:54 AM
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Concerto for violin and horn in A major
Agata Raatz (violin), Zora Slokar (horn), Bern Chamber Orchestra, Graziella Contratto (conductor)
02:22 AM
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor (from Goyescas)
Enrique Granados (piano)
02:31 AM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
Missa brevis (... tempore belli)
Chamber Choir of Pecs, Alice Komaromi (soprano), Aniko Kopjar (soloist), Eva Nagy (soloist), Agnes Tumpekne Kuti (soprano), Timea Tillai (soloist), Janos Szerekovan (soloist), Joszef Moldvay (soloist), Istvan Ella (organ), Aurel Tillai (conductor)
03:05 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Overture (Suite) TWV.55:C3 in C major 'Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth'
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Ketil Haugsand (conductor)
03:29 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
L'Isle Joyeuse
Jurate Karosaite (piano)
03:36 AM
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Espana - rhapsody
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
03:43 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Aria: 'Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo' (from "Cosí fan tutte", Act 1)
Allan Monk (baritone), Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor)
03:48 AM
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Italian serenade
Bartok String Quartet
03:56 AM
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
4 Folk Songs: 1. My dark-haired maiden; 2. O Mistress Mine [words. Shakespeare]; 3. Six dukes went afishin' [BFMS.11]; 4. Mary Thomson (c.1913)
Camerata Chamber Choir, Michael Bojesen (conductor)
04:07 AM
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Suite No 2 in F major HWV 427
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
04:16 AM
Antonio Soler (1729-1783)
Fandango
Fredrik From (violin), Benjamin Scherer Questa (violin), Teodoro Baù (viola d'arco), Hager Hanana (cello), Joanna Boslak-Gorniok (harpsichord), Dagmara Kapczyńska (harpsichord), Gwennaelle Alibert (harpsichord), Bolette Roed (recorder), Komale Akakpo (dulcimer)
04:23 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance No 12 in D flat major Op 72 No 4
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
04:31 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Friedrich Schiller (author)
Der Alpenjager (D.588b) (Op 37 no 2)
Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (pianoforte)
04:37 AM
Paul Gilson (1865-1942)
Andante and Scherzo for cello and orchestra
Timora Rosler (cello), Flemish Radio Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
04:46 AM
Albertus Groneman (c.1710-1778)
Flute Sonata in E minor
Jed Wentz (flute), Balazs Mate (cello), Marcelo Bussi (harpsichord)
04:57 AM
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Scherzo No 4 in E major
Dubravka Tomsic (piano)
05:09 AM
Antoni Haczewski ((C.18th/19th))
Symphony in D major
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrzej Straszynski (conductor)
05:18 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Ariettes oubliees - song cycle for voice and piano
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Gary Matthewman (piano)
05:35 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Symphony no 7 in C major, Op 105
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena (conductor)
05:56 AM
Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Trio for oboe, horn and piano in A minor, Op.188
Maarten Karres (oboe), Jaap Prinsen (horn), Ariane Veelo-Karres (piano)
06:19 AM
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
E voi siete d'altri, o labra soavi, ZWV 176
Delphine Galou (contralto), Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko (director)
TUE 06:30 Breakfast (m00126x1)
Tuesday - Petroc's classical alarm call
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
TUE 09:00 Essential Classics (m00126x5)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – our second pick of music written for the theatre.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
TUE 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00126x8)
Mark-Anthony Turnage (b 1960)
Inspirations
Donald Macleod talks to the composer about his passions for social justice and visual art, and they discuss his vocal work tackling the subject of domestic violence.
Mark-Anthony Turnage is a man with a reputation for shaking up the world of British classical music - a composer with a distinctive and rebellious creative voice. His work vividly fuses influences of jazz, soul and contemporary pop with music that remains boldly and defiantly avant-garde. It’s music that packs a punch, yet whose visceral impact accompanies a deep lyricism and emotion. Over four decades, Turnage’s work has tackled social commentary: domestic violence, drug abuse, and the refugee crisis. But he’s also a composer with a subversive streak, with an opera exploring the life of former Playboy model Anna-Nicole Smith, and orchestral pieces inspired by his beloved Arsenal football club and pop superstar Beyoncé.
Turnage’s music is often inspired by issues in the contemporary the world: today, he talks to Donald Macleod about his dramatic scena “Twice Through The Heart”, to words by the Scottish poet Jackie Kay, which addresses the trauma of domestic abuse from a woman’s perspective. They also discuss the composer’s deep love of visual art, as we hear a work inspired by the “Pope” paintings of Francis Bacon.
Set To
Brass Partout
Three Screaming Popes
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Twice Through the Heart (Part Two)
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Your Rockaby (excerpt)
Martin Robertson, saxophone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
True life stories (Tune for Toru)
Ian Brown, piano
TUE 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000tw3g)
Perth Easter Festival (1/4)
Pianist Steven Osborne joins SCO soloists to performs Messiaen's spiritual masterpiece, Quartet for the end of Time, written while the composer was imprisoned by the Nazis in Stalag VIII-A at Gorlitz and first performed in the camp to the other prisoners. He took his inspiration from texts in the Book of Revelations: a mighty angel, apocalyptic scenes, birdsong, heavenly silence and the end of time itself.
Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time
Osborne/SCO players
Steven Osborne, piano
Maria Włoszczowska, violin
Maximiliano Martin, clarinet
Philip Higham, cello
Presented by Tom Redmond
Produced by Lindsay Pell
TUE 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m00126xg)
Tuesday - BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers
This week features live and recent concert performances by the BBC performing groups. Today's programme includes the BBC Philharmonic recorded last week at Leeds College of Music with a programme including Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Then to the BBC Singers with a concert which combines Bach chorales with contemporary vocal music.
Presented by Tom McKinney
Including:
Rachmaninov: 6 Duets Op.11 for piano 4 hands
Zhang Zuo & Louis Schwizgebel (piano duo)
c.
2.30pm
BBC Philharmonic, recorded in November at the Leeds College of Music
Hildegard of Bingen (arr. Tom Coult and Daniel Pioro): O ecclesia, for violin and string orchestra
Edmund Finnis: The Centre is Everywhere
Caroline Shaw: Punctum
Vivaldi: Four seasons
BBC Philharmonic
Daniel Pioro (violin/director)
c.
3.45pm
BBC Singers, recorded this month in Copenhagen
Ed Frazier Davis: O Magnum Mysterium
JS Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599
Paul Manz: E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come
Emily Hazrati: Drop down ye heavens from above
Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: Alleluia! A New Work is Come on Hand
JS Bach: Gottes Sohn ist kommen, BWV 600
Jan Sandström: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Brahms: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Hilary Campbell: Ave Maria
JS Bach: Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611
Lucy Walker: There is no rose
William Harris: Faire is the heaven
JS Bach: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her BWV 700 (C Major)
BBC Singers
Stephen Farr (organ)
Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)
TUE 17:00 In Tune (m00126xl)
The Budapest Cafe Orchestra, Graham Ross
Sean Rafferty's guests are The Budapest Cafe Orchestra, playing live, and conductor of the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Graham Ross.
TUE 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m00126xq)
Classical music for focus and inspiration
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
TUE 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m00126xx)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Ian Skelly presents a concert given last Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey featuring music by Dobrinka Tabakova. We'll hear her Cello Concerto from 2008 with soloist Laura van der Heijden alongside Tectonic and the first performance of the brand new Pacific, the most recent of her major works for the BBC Concert Orchestra as Composer in Residence.
Jessie Montgomery Starburst
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Dobrinka Tabakova Cello concerto
INTERVAL
de Falla Ritual Fire Dance
Dobrinka Tabakova Suite for Orchestra: 1. Tectonic; 2. Pacific; 3. Timber and Steel
Laura van der Heijden (cello)
BBC Concert Orchestra
conductor Bramwell Tovey
TUE 22:00 Free Thinking (m00126y4)
Groundbreaking history books
Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published. The Cundill Prize and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman prizes are announced in early December. We catch up with news about the winners and hear from other influential historians.
Producer: Robyn Read
TUE 22:45 The Essay (m00126yc)
Another Northern Ireland
Searching with Shorelines
Since its creation a century ago, perceptions of Northern Ireland have often been dominated by stories of conflict and political unrest. But as anyone who lives there or who has visited knows, it’s a picture that’s far from complete.
Five essays reveal Another Northern Ireland in its centenary year - the idiosyncrasies of the everyday, hidden histories and untold stories which outsiders rarely get to hear about but which each of these writers inhabits, lives and understands.
Poet Gail McConnell talks about Northern Ireland’s connection to the sea and its inspiration in the poet Louis MacNeice’s work and life as well as her own.
Producers: Ophelia Byrne and Conor Garrett
TUE 23:00 Night Tracks (m00126yp)
A little night music
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
WEDNESDAY 08 DECEMBER 2021
WED 00:30 Through the Night (m00126yz)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
From the Hungarian Radio archives, a performance from the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer, including Bartok's Violin Concerto No 1, with soloist Mark Kaplan, and Beethoven's Symphony No 4. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Idylle from 'Suite pastorale'
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
12:36 AM
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Habanera
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
12:41 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Poème for violin and orchestra, Op.25
Mark Kaplan (violin), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
12:57 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Violin concerto no.1, Sz.36
Mark Kaplan (violin), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
01:20 AM
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Caprice no.24
Mark Kaplan (violin)
01:25 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Symphony no.4 in B flat major, Op.60
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
02:00 AM
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Gavotte from Symphony no.1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical'
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
02:03 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Auf der Jagd (On the Hunt) - polka schnell, Op.373
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
02:06 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
String Quartet in G major, Op.18'2
Bartok String Quartet
02:31 AM
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Symphony in C minor. EG 119
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (conductor)
03:04 AM
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907)
Sextet for piano and wind quintet in B flat major, Op 6
Tae-Won Kim (flute), Sang-Won Yoon (bassoon), Kawng-Ku Lee (horn), Hyon-Kon Kim (clarinet), Hyong-Sup Kim (oboe), Jae-Eun Ku (piano)
03:34 AM
Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565)
O socii neque enim/Durate
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel (conductor)
03:39 AM
Johannes Bernardus van Bree (1801-1857)
Allegro for 4 string quartets in D minor (1845)
Viotta Ensemble, Viktor Liberman (conductor)
03:50 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Flute Concerto in G minor, RV 439 ('La notte')
Rebekka Brunner (flute), Zug Chamber Soloists
04:01 AM
Oskar Lindberg (1887-1955), Jeanna Oterdahl (lyricist)
Midsommarnatt
Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Maria Wieslander (piano), Gustav Sjokvist (conductor)
04:04 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Jeux - poème dansé
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
04:21 AM
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Czardas macabre
Istvan Antal (piano)
04:31 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Overture to L' Italiana in Algeri
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
04:39 AM
Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Exaudi me, for 12 part triple chorus, continuo and 4 trombones
Danish National Radio Chorus, Copenhagen Cornetts & Sackbutts, Lars Baunkilde (violone), Soren Christian Vestergaard (organ), Bo Holten (conductor)
04:46 AM
Filip Kutev (1903-1982)
Rhapsody for orchestra
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov (conductor)
04:58 AM
Teresa Carreno (1853-1917)
Valse Petite in D major
Dennis Hennig (piano)
05:02 AM
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no 38 in C major, H.
1.38
Danish Radio Sinfonietta, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
05:21 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Danses champetres Op.106 for violin and piano (nos 1 & 2)
Petteri Iivonen (violin), Philip Chiu (piano)
05:28 AM
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
La Péri
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice, Domingo Hindoyan (conductor)
05:48 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied - motet (BWV.225)
Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Ivars Taurins (conductor)
06:01 AM
Franciszek Lessel (1780-1838)
Piano Concerto in C, Op 14
Leonora Armellini (piano), Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pawel Przytocki (conductor)
WED 06:30 Breakfast (m00126xw)
Wednesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
WED 09:00 Essential Classics (m00126y2)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – another great piece of music written for a theatre production.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
WED 12:00 Composer of the Week (m00126y6)
Mark-Anthony Turnage (b 1960)
Remembrance and Loss
Donald Macleod discusses the poignant, brutal wartime opera The Silver Tassie with its composer and his close musical and personal relationship with guitarist John Scofield.
Mark-Anthony Turnage is a man with a reputation for shaking up the world of British classical music - a composer with a distinctive and rebellious creative voice. His work vividly fuses influences of jazz, soul and contemporary pop with music that remains boldly and defiantly avant-garde. It’s music that packs a punch yet whose visceral impact accompanies a deep lyricism and emotion. Over four decades, Turnage’s work has tackled social commentary: domestic violence, drug abuse, and the refugee crisis. But he’s also a composer with a subversive streak, with an opera exploring the life of former Playboy model Anna-Nicole Smith, and orchestral pieces inspired by his beloved Arsenal football club and pop superstar, Beyoncé.
The new millennium saw the premiere of Turnage’s war opera The Silver Tassie - a work set in the trenches of World War I and yet as the decade unfolded would have a brutal, poignant resonance to the experiences of contemporary British soldiers. The composer talks to Donald Macleod about its enduring power - and also reflects on the nature of memorial and memory, in a recent work composed in remembrance of the son of one of his closest musical friends.
The Silver Tassie, Act 1: Oh Bring To Me A Pint Of Wine
Gerald Finley, baritone (Harry Heegan)
Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera
Paul Daniel, conductor
Slide Stride
The Nash Ensemble
The Silver Tassie, Act 2, Scene 2 (excerpt)
Bradley Daley, tenor (Staff Officer)
Corporal – Jozef Koc, bass (Corporal)
Chorus of the ENO (Soldiers)
Orchestra of English National Opera
Paul Daniel, conductor
The Silver Tassie, Act 4 Scene 3
Gerald Finley, baritone (Harry Heegan)
Anne Howells, soprano (Mrs Heegan)
Sarah Connolly, mezzo (Susie)
David Kempster, baritone (Teddy)
Mark Le Brocq, tenor (Dr Maxwell)
Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera
Paul Daniel, conductor
Scorched (Let’s Say We Did)
John Scofield, guitar; John Patitucci, electric bass; Peter Erskine, percussion
HR Big Band; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Hugh Wolff, conductor
Remembering (4th mvt)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
WED 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000twbq)
Perth Easter Festival (2/4)
Clarinettist Maximiliano Martin and pianist Scott Mitchell perform Romantic showpieces from the Paris Conservatoire of the late 19th century along with one of Bernstein's lesser-known works - his first published work - which demonstrates his debt to Copland and the American school.
Chausson: Andante and Allegro
Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata
Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata
Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata
Maximiliano Martin, clarinet
Scott Mitchell, piano
Presented by Tom Redmond
Produced by Lindsay Pell
WED 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m00126yh)
Wednesday - BBC Concert Orchestra Live
This week features live and recent concerts from the BBC performing groups. Today it's the turn of the BBC Concert Orchestra, live from Watford Colosseum with a programme including Scriabin's Piano Concerto with Radio 3 New Generation Artists soloist Alexander Gadjiev.
Presented by Ian Skelly
BBC Concert Orchestra – LIVE from Watford Colosseum
Borodin: Prince Igor – Overture
Arnold: Rinaldo and Armida, Ballet for Orchestra
Maconchy: Two Dances from Puck Fair
Rawsthorne: Madam Chrysanthème Suite
Coleridge-Taylor: Dance Negre from African Suite
Scriabin: Piano Concerto Op.20
Alexander Gadjiev (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
WED 16:00 Choral Evensong (m00126yr)
Buckfast Abbey
Choral vespers for the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, live from Buckfast Abbey with the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Introit: Ave Maria (Stravinsky)
Hymn: Ave Maris Stella (Plainsong arr. Matthew Martin)
Psalms 109, 112, 121, 126 (Plainsong/Falsebordone, Matthew Martin/Patrick Russill)
Scripture Reading: Romans 5 vv.21-25
Motet: Vidi speciosam (Victoria)
Magnificat Primi toni (inter pares) (Victoria)
Marian Antiphon: Tota pulchra es (James Macmillan)
Voluntary: Fantasie-Improvisation sur l‘Ave Maris Stella (Tournemire)
Matthew Martin (Precentor)
Kyoko Canaway and Martin Baker (Organists)
WED 17:00 In Tune (m00126z0)
Soraya Mafi, Gawain Glenton and Silas Wollston, Teyber Trio
Sean Rafferty talks to soprano Soraya Mafi, and to cornett and keyboard players Gawain Glenton and Silas Wollston about their current projects. And there's live music from the Teyber Trio: Tim Crawford (violin), Tim Ridout (viola) and Tim Posner (cello).
WED 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m00126z5)
Power through with classical music
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
WED 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m00126zc)
Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic
In his first concert with the LPO as their Conductor Emeritus, Vladimir Jurowski presents a programme featuring two 20th-century masterpieces with the spirit of Russia at their heart.
After Alina Ibragimova's and Vladimir Jurowski's multi-award-winning recording of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 was released in last year, a critic hailed her interpretation as having 'an unvarnished truth about it. It’s the kind of playing that looks you unblinkingly in the eye and tells it like it is.' The emotional and searingly intense concerto was finished in 1948 but not heard in public until seven years later. The gap was due to another of Shostakovich's crises in confidence brought on by a very public humiliation at the hands of the Soviet authorities. But by 1955 Shostakovich's principal tormentors, Joseph Stalin and Andrei Zhdanov, were dead and the premiere revealed a major milestone among 20th-century concertos, which has never since been out of the repertoire.
Rachmaninoff, too, was no stranger to crises of confidence (which often coincided with the premieres of his symphonies). At its1935 premiere, the Third Symphony was dismissed by the critics who said it wasn't up to the first two, both of which in turn had been critically dismissed at their premieres. But, written for the great Philadelphia Orchestra, the Third is prime Rachmaninov, an engaging combination of his trademark lyrical Russian nostalgia and, in its finale, a virtuosic exuberance which has more than a nod to Hollywood.
A world premiere by LPO Composer-in-Residence Brett Dean completes the programme.
Introduced live from the Royal Festival Hall by Hannah French.
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77
Brett Dean: Notturno inquieto (Rivisitato)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
WED 22:00 Free Thinking (m00126zj)
The TV Debate
James Graham’s play exploring the encounters between the American political commentators Gore Vidal and William F Buckley, opens at the Young Vic in London this week. Alongside that American example we have Germaine Greer v Norman Mailer at New York's Town Hall, April 1971 which was filmed as a documentary Town Bloody Hall. And more recent presidential debates, which have become part of the British political landscape during our elections - and there's the weekly politics show Question Time with viewers now on zoom and twitter. Anne McElvoy and guests look at whether debating has changed?
James Graham latest play is Best of Enemies
Helen Lewis is a broadcaster and staff writer for The Atlantic. Her latest book is Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights.
Producer: Ruth Watts
Best of Enemies runs at the Young Vic in London until Jan 22nd 2022 with Charles Edwards as Gore Vidal, alongside David Harewood, as William F Buckley Jr.
It is inspired by Best of Enemies a 2015 American documentary film co-directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville available on https://dogwoof.com/bestofenemies
Town Bloody Hall a documentary made by Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker is available from https://www.criterion.com/films/30213-town-bloody-hall
James Graham's other dramas include Quiz, Labour of Love and Ink. You can hear him discussing Dramatising Democracy in a Free Thinking discussion with Michael Dobbs, Paula Milne, and Trudi-Ann Tierney https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yb7k6
and his play which put Screaming Lord Sutch on stage https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zq2jl
WED 22:45 The Essay (m00126zn)
Another Northern Ireland
The Art of Staying
Since its creation a century ago, perceptions of Northern Ireland have often been dominated by stories of conflict and political unrest. But as anyone who lives there or who has visited knows, it’s a picture that’s far from complete.
Five essays reveal Another Northern Ireland in its centenary year - the idiosyncrasies of the everyday, hidden histories and untold stories that outsiders rarely get to hear about but which each of these writers inhabits, lives and understands.
Poet Míchéal McCann has always believed that, for queer people like him, to leave for the big city is not just a verb but a commandment. But at a traditional rural Northern Ireland wake, a mourning rite for his uncle, he reconsiders his understanding of ‘home’ and asks if it could come to mean something different.
Producers: Ophelia Byrne and Conor Garrett
WED 23:00 Night Tracks (m00126zs)
Music after dark
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
THURSDAY 09 DECEMBER 2021
THU 00:30 Through the Night (m00126zx)
Female Song
A recital of songs by female composers, including Amy Beach, both Boulanger sisters and Ilse Weber. Presented by Catriona Young.
12:31 AM
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
3 Shakespeare Songs: 1. O mistress mine; 2. Take, o take; 3. Fairy Lullaby
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano)
12:38 AM
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
4 Songs: 1. Élégie; 2. Cantique; 3. Soleils couchants; 4. J’ai frappé
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano)
12:49 AM
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
4 Songs from 'Clairières dans le ciel': 1. Elle était descendue; 2. Un poète disait; 3. Au pied de mon lit; 4. Deux ancolies
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano)
12:58 AM
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
5 Songs: 1. Ecstasy ; 2. A Mirage; 3. Stella viatoris; 4. Rendez-vous; 5. Chanson d’amour
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano), Marta Cardona (violin), Laia Puig (cello)
01:17 AM
Ilse Weber (1903-1944), Francesc Cassu (arranger)
4 Songs for Children: 1. Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt; 2. Ade, Kamerad!; 3. Und der Regen rinnt; 4. Wiegala
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano), Marta Cardona (violin), Laia Puig (cello)
01:28 AM
Ilse Weber (1903-1944), Francesc Cassu (arranger)
Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt (from 4 Songs for Children)
Roger Padulles (tenor), Ruben Fernandez Aguirre (piano), Marta Cardona (violin), Laia Puig (cello)
01:31 AM
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Pelleas und Melisande, Op 5
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)
02:14 AM
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Poeme, Op.25 (version for violin, string quartet and piano)
Philippe Graffin (violin), Jorgen Larsen (piano), Skampa Quartet
02:31 AM
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Magnificat in D major (Wq 215)
Linda Ovrebo (soprano), Anna Einarsson (alto), Anders J. Dahlin (tenor), Johannes Mannov (bass), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Chamber Choir, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)
03:07 AM
Astor Piazzolla ((1921-1992))
Las cuatro estaciones portenas
Musica Camerata Montreal
03:30 AM
Ruth Watson Henderson (1932-)
Two Love Songs: 1.The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Text Christopher Marlowe); 2.The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (Text Sir Walter Raleigh)
Elmer Iseler Singers, Claire Preston (piano), Lydia Adams (director)
03:35 AM
Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755)
Sonata for Orchestra in C minor, J.III.2b
Kore Orchestra, Andrea Buccarella (harpsichord)
03:41 AM
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maarten Bon (arranger)
Jeux arranged for 8 hands
Yoko Abe (piano), Gerard van Blerk (piano), Maarten Bon (piano), Sepp Grotenhuis (piano)
03:57 AM
Sulho Ranta (1901-1960)
Finnish Folk Dances - suite for orchestra Op 51
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
04:06 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonata in C major RV 779 for oboe, violin and continuo
Camerata Koln
04:20 AM
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Rosen aus dem Suden, waltz Op 388
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, Roman Zeilinger (conductor)
04:31 AM
Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960)
Overture to an Italian Comedy
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Post (conductor)
04:37 AM
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Quartet no 1 in F major for flute, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Canberra Wind Soloists
04:49 AM
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Concerto for 3 violins in F major, TWV53:F1 (Tafelmusik)
European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
05:03 AM
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Prelude for guitar no 3 in A minor
Norbert Kraft (guitar)
05:10 AM
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847)
7 Songs The Viking: 1. The Little Charcoal-burner; 2. Mignonette[1823]; 3. My Politics [1840]; 4. On New Year's Day [1838]; 5. Speech and Silence [1838]; 6. The Night Sky [1838]; 7. The Little Knifegrinder [1835]
Samuel Jarrick (baritone), Stefan Bojsten (piano)
05:25 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Folk sketches for small orchestral ensemble (1948)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
05:29 AM
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
String Quartet no 14 in A flat major, Op 105
Stamic Quartet
06:02 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No.38 in D major (K.504), "Prague"
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)
THU 06:30 Breakfast (m001270z)
Thursday - Petroc's classical alternative
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
THU 09:00 Essential Classics (m0012711)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – another in our selection of the best music written for the theatre.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
THU 12:00 Composer of the Week (m0012713)
Mark-Anthony Turnage (b 1960)
Pop Artist
Not many classical musicians write works based on the life of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith or pop superstar Beyoncé. Donald Macleod explores Turnage’s love of mainstream culture.
Mark-Anthony Turnage is a man with a reputation for shaking up the world of British classical music - a composer with a distinctive and rebellious creative voice. His work vividly fuses influences of jazz, soul and contemporary pop with music that remains boldly and defiantly avant-garde. It’s music that packs a punch, yet whose visceral impact accompanies a deep lyricism and emotion. Over four decades, Turnage’s work has tackled social commentary: domestic violence, drug abuse, and the refugee crisis. But he’s also a composer with a subversive streak, with an opera exploring the life of former Playboy model Anna-Nicole Smith, and orchestral pieces inspired by his beloved Arsenal football club and pop superstar Beyoncé.
Turnage’s opera “Anna Nicole”, based on the tragic life of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, inspired more column inches in the mainstream press than perhaps any opera in living memory - a subversive, sometimes lurid blend of the satirical and elegiac. Whilst some voices fulminated at its subject matter, many others praised the way it blended the contemporary and the sadly timeless: the story of a woman looked down upon and thwarted by society. Donald Macleod talks to the composer about the opera’s fascinating and sometimes controversial genesis and reception, as well other works inspired by Beyoncé and Led Zeppelin.
Hammered Out
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson, conductor
From The Wreckage
Hakan Hardenberger, flugelhorn; trumpet; piccolo trumpet
London Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor
Anna Nicole, Act 1 (excerpt)
Eva-Maria Westbroek, soprano (Anna Nicole)
Gerald Finley, baritone (Stern, Anna Nicole’s lawyer)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Antonio Pappano, conductor
Texan Tenebrae
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Twisted Blues With Twisted Ballad (Reflections on “Stairway To Heaven” by Led Zeppelin)
Piatti Quartet
THU 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000twjy)
Perth Easter Festival (3/4)
The Maxwell String Quartet perform two of the great quartets from the repertoire.
Haydn String Quartet Op 74 No 3
Beethoven 'Harp' String Quartet No 10 in E flat major
Maxwell Quartet
Presented by Tom Redmond
Produced by Lindsay Pell
THU 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m0012715)
Thursday - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
This week features live and recent concerts by the BBC performing groups. Today it's the turn of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded in September at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh with a varied programme including Sibelius's Violin Concerto and Symphony no.7. Plus former New Generation Artists Christian Ihle Hadland and the Escher Quartet perform Mozart's Piano Quartet in E flat major.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Britten: An American Overture
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata in A major
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Richard Uttley (piano)
c.
2.30pm
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded in September at Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Bach (arr. Crespo): Es ist genug (Cantata BWV.60)
Lindberg: Choral (based on Es ist genug)
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore’ no.3
Sibelius: Symphony no.7
Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Joana Carneiro (conductor)
c.
4pm
Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat major, K.493
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Escher Quartet
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)
THU 17:00 In Tune (m0012717)
With Sean Rafferty
Top-class live music from some of the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians. If it's happening in the world of music, you'll hear it first on In Tune.
THU 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m0012719)
Your go-to introduction to classical music
In Tune's classical music mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
THU 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001271c)
CBSO with Sibelius, Dove and Dvorak
The Hungarian conductor Gergely Madaras conducts the CBSO live from Symphony Hall in Birmingham in a programme of Sibelius and Dvorak, which also features a newly commissioned work from the orchestra by Jonathan Dove, written especially for baritone Sir Simon Keenlyside and the cellist Raphael Wallfisch. The programme ends with one of Dvorak's best-known and best-loved symphonies, making this a concert of "New Worlds".
Sibelius: Finlandia
Dove: In Exile (UK premiere)
Simon Keenleyside (baritone)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
INTERVAL
Dvorak: Symphony No 9 (‘From the New World’)
CBSO
Gergely Madaras (conductor)
THU 22:00 Free Thinking (m001271f)
Witchcraft and Margaret Murray
From unwrapping Egyptian mummies to her theories about witch trials and the influence of her 1921 book The Witch-Cult in Western Europe on Wicca beliefs: Margaret Murray's career comes under the spotlight as Matthew Sweet is joined by guests including New Generation Thinker Elsa Richardson and historian of witchcraft Ronald Hutton.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
You might also be interested in the Free Thinking discussions on Magic with Kate Laity, Chris Gosden, Jessica Gossling and John Tresch https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kvss
On Witchcraft, Werewolves and Writing the Devil with Jenni Fagan. Salena Godden, Tabitha Stanmore and Daniel Ogden https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r5hk
Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands hearing from Marie Darrieussecq, Zoe Gilbert, Lisa Mullen and Dafydd Daniel https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000qkl
THU 22:45 The Essay (m001271h)
Another Northern Ireland
Chalk on the Wall
Since its creation a century ago, perceptions of Northern Ireland have often been dominated by stories of conflict and political unrest. But as anyone who lives there or who has visited knows, it’s a picture that’s far from complete.
Five essays reveal Another Northern Ireland in its centenary year - the idiosyncrasies of the everyday, hidden histories and untold stories which outsiders rarely get to hear about but which each of these writers inhabits, lives and understands.
After discovering a message chalked on a wall, writer Claire Mitchell peels back the layers of her County Down hometown to discover a hidden radical history.
Producers: Ophelia Byrne and Conor Garrett
THU 23:00 The Night Tracks Mix (m001271k)
Music for the night
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. Subscribe to receive your weekly mix on BBC Sounds.
THU 23:30 Unclassified (m001271m)
Mary Anne Hobbs in the Listening Chair
Elizabeth Alker journeys to the outer edges of ambient, electronic, and post-classical music and revels in the spaces between.
This week, she invites BBC 6 Music presenter (and fellow advocate for unclassifiable music) Mary Anne Hobbs into the Listening Chair to pick one piece that moves her to another world. Her selection comes from the German pianist, Nils Frahm, whose spellbinding live performances and intimate, minimal compositions have captivated her from the very first moment she heard them.
Produced by Frank Palmer
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER 2021
FRI 00:30 Through the Night (m001271p)
Emilie Mayer's Overtures and Symphonies
Three orchestras play music by German composer Emilie Mayer. Catriona Young presents.
12:31 AM
Emilie Mayer (1812-1883)
Overture to Faust, op. 46
Gottingen Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor)
12:41 AM
Emilie Mayer (1812-1883)
Symphony No. 3
Mecklenburg Staatskapelle, Schwerin, Mark Rohde (conductor)
01:13 AM
Emilie Mayer (1812-1883)
Overture in C
Mecklenburg Staatskapelle, Schwerin, Mark Rohde (conductor)
01:22 AM
Emilie Mayer (1812-1883), Roz Trubger (arranger)
Symphony No. 6 in E
Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Reiners (conductor)
02:00 AM
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Piano Trio in E flat Op 2
Tale Olsson (violin), Johanna Sjunnesson (cello), Mats Jansson (piano)
02:31 AM
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Joan Enric Lluna (clarinet), Alexander String Quartet
03:10 AM
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Missa Alleluja a 36
Gradus ad Parnassum, Concerto Palatino, Wiener Hofburgkapelle, Konrad Junghanel (director)
03:46 AM
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Scherzo No.1 in B flat (D.593)
Halina Radvilaite (piano)
03:53 AM
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Petite Suite
Royal Academy of Music Brass Soloists
04:00 AM
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Ciaccona "Quemadmodum desiderat cervus" (BuxWV.92)
John Elwes (tenor), Ensemble La Fenice, Jean Tubery (cornet), Jean Tubery (conductor)
04:07 AM
Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Suite for chamber orchestra (1946)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jan Krenz (conductor)
04:14 AM
Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Percy Grainger (arranger)
Ramble on the Last Love Duet in Der Rosenkavalier
Dennis Hennig (piano)
04:22 AM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in F major, RV 284, Op.4'9
Fabio Biondi (violin), Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (director)
04:31 AM
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Concert waltz for orchestra No 1 Op 47 in D major
CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Kazuyoshi Akiyama (conductor)
04:40 AM
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805-1900)
Etudes instructives, Op 53 (1851)
Nina Gade (piano)
04:50 AM
Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Cantata: Lauft, ihr Hirten allzugleich (Run ye shepherds, to the light)
Wolfgang Brunner, Salzburger Hofmusik
04:59 AM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for flute, violin and continuo in G major, BWV 1038
Musica Petropolitana
05:07 AM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Adagio for violin and orchestra in E major, K.261
James Ehnes (violin), Mozart Anniversary Orchestra
05:16 AM
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
7 pieces from Mikrokosmos arr. Bartok for 2 pianos
Claire Ouellet (piano), Sandra Murray (piano)
05:25 AM
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
Overture à due chori in B flat
Cappella Coloniensis, Hans-Martin Linde (conductor)
05:50 AM
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000)
Excursion Ballet Suite
Symphony Nova Scotia, Georg Tintner (conductor)
06:05 AM
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 129
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Gurer Aykal (conductor)
FRI 06:30 Breakfast (m001276h)
Friday - Petroc's classical mix
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.
Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
FRI 09:00 Essential Classics (m001276k)
Georgia Mann
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.
0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1100 Essential Five – our final pick of music originally written for theatre productions.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
FRI 12:00 Composer of the Week (m001276m)
Mark-Anthony Turnage (b 1960)
Memorials and Middle Age
Donald Macleod discusses the influence of fatherhood, and the loss of one of the composer’s dearest friends. Now aged 61, has he left the musical 'angry young man' behind?
Mark-Anthony Turnage is a man with a reputation for shaking up the world of British classical music - a composer with a distinctive and rebellious creative voice. His work vividly fuses influences of jazz, soul and contemporary pop with music that remains boldly and defiantly avant-garde. It’s music that packs a punch, yet whose visceral impact accompanies a deep lyricism and emotion. Over four decades, Turnage’s work has tackled social commentary: domestic violence, drug abuse, and the refugee crisis. But he’s also a composer with a subversive streak, with an opera exploring the life of former Playboy model Anna-Nicole Smith, and orchestral pieces inspired by his beloved Arsenal football club and pop superstar Beyoncé.
Recently Mark-Anthony Turnage, for a long time characterised (rather reductively) as the “angry young man” of British classical music, entered his seventh decade. Donald Macleod talks to him about his most recent works, the impact of ageing and fatherhood, and the loss of two musical colleagues: the conductor Hans-Werner Henze and his close friend Oliver Knussen.
Milo, for solo cello
Guy Johnston, cello
Piano Concerto (2nd mvt, "Last Lullaby For Hans")
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
UNDANCE (excerpts)
Undance Band
Tim Murray, conductor
Concerto for Two Violins "Shadow Walker" (2nd & 3rd mvts)
Daniel Hope; Vadim Repin, violins
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
Sascha Goetzel, conductor
Speranza (4th mvt, Tikvah)
London Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor
FRI 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m000twww)
Perth Easter Festival (4/4)
Distinguished Edinburgh-based pianist Susan Tomes, formerly of the Florestan Trio, teams up with soloists from the RSNO to perform these delightful ensemble works.
Beethoven: Piano Wind Quintets Op 16
Mozart: Piano Wind Quintet K452
Susan Tomes, piano
RSNO Winds:
Adrian Wilson, Oboe
Timothy Orpen, Clarinet
David Hubbard, Bassoon
Christopher Gough, Horn
Presented by Tom Redmond
Produced by Lindsay Pell
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Concert (m001276p)
Friday - BBC NOW and BBC SO Live
This week features live and recent concerts from the BBC performing groups, and the week concludes with two live concerts. First to Hoddinott Hall for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to perform a world premiere by Sarah Lianna Lewis, Woolrich's Viola Concerto with New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout and Ravel's sumptuous Mother Goose ballet. Then to Maida Vale in London for the BBC Symphony Orchestra's live concert, including Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with New Generation Artist Tom Borrow, and Sibelius's Symphony no.6.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
2pm
BBC NOW - Live from Hoddinott Hall
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Sarah Lianna Lewis: Creature of Dust and Dreams (WP)
Woolrich: Viola Concerto
Ravel: Mother Goose - ballet
Timothy Ridout (viola)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
3.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Live from Maida Vale
Presented by Ian Skelly
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major, Op.75 ‘Emperor’
Sibelius: Symphony no.6 in D minor, Op.74
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tom Borrow (piano)
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
FRI 17:00 In Tune (m001276r)
Megson, Inon Barnatan
Sean Rafferty is joined by folk duo Megson, playing live in the studio. Pianist Inon Barnatan also talks to Sean about his new album of piano music spanning the centuries.
FRI 19:00 In Tune Mixtape (m001276t)
Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
In tonight's In Tune Mixtape, we dance to the tunes of Beethoven and Johann Strauss II before a thieving magpie catches our ear, and dark flames of love dart from the eyes of Dame Janet Baker singing Mahler, a clog dance and dazzling Norwegian folk dance conclude our sequence .… and we start tonight in the equally dazzling Spanish sunshine.
FRI 19:30 Radio 3 in Concert (m001276w)
Beethoven's Violin Concerto
Recorded last month at City Halls, Glasgow
Presented by Andrew McGregor
Tobias Feldmann joins conductor David Afkham and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to play Beethoven's famous concerto, followed by music by Unsuk Chin and Schumann.
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
8.15 Interval
As a prelude to Unsuk Chin's 'subito conforza' in Part 2 a chance to hear more of her music as part of a sequence which also includes recordings of music by 2 Korean-born composers from previous generations: Isang Yun, and Sukhi Kang.
8.30 Part Two
Unsuk Chin: Subito con forza
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish)
Tobias Feldmann (violin)
David Afkham (conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
FRI 22:00 The Verb (m001276y)
Ian McMillan's regular foray into the world of language and literature
FRI 22:45 The Essay (m0012770)
Another Northern Ireland
Euphoria
Since its creation a century ago, perceptions of Northern Ireland have often been dominated by stories of conflict and political unrest. But as anyone who lives there or who has visited knows, it’s a picture that’s far from complete.
Five essays reveal Another Northern Ireland in its centenary year - the idiosyncrasies of the everyday, hidden histories and untold stories which outsiders rarely get to hear about but which each of these writers inhabits, lives and understands.
Novelist Glenn Patterson takes us into the Belfast hairdressers, clothes shops and clubs that assumed an urgent significance during the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Producers: Ophelia Byrne and Conor Garrett
FRI 23:00 Late Junction (m0012772)
Computer-Generated Orchestras, Aztec Wisdom and Organ Tones
Jennifer Lucy Allen traverses millennia with music inspired by Mayan myths from Xochimoki - a duo of Aztec wisdom keeper Mazatl Galindo alongside American ethnomusicologist Jim Berenholz. She also has computer generated orchestral music from Osaka’s Futoshi Moriyama and sustained organ tones from Ellen Arkbro, as recorded in a lofty Swedish church.
Produced by Rachel Byrne
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 MON (m00126xp)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 TUE (m00126xg)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 WED (m00126yh)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 THU (m0012715)
Afternoon Concert
14:00 FRI (m001276p)
Breakfast
07:00 SAT (m00126t8)
Breakfast
07:00 SUN (m00126v1)
Breakfast
06:30 MON (m00126x4)
Breakfast
06:30 TUE (m00126x1)
Breakfast
06:30 WED (m00126xw)
Breakfast
06:30 THU (m001270z)
Breakfast
06:30 FRI (m001276h)
Choral Evensong
15:00 SUN (m00120zh)
Choral Evensong
16:00 WED (m00126yr)
Classical Fix
00:00 MON (m000xkdb)
Composer of the Week
12:00 MON (m00126xf)
Composer of the Week
12:00 TUE (m00126x8)
Composer of the Week
12:00 WED (m00126y6)
Composer of the Week
12:00 THU (m0012713)
Composer of the Week
12:00 FRI (m001276m)
Drama on 3
19:30 SUN (m000cm58)
Essential Classics
09:00 MON (m00126x9)
Essential Classics
09:00 TUE (m00126x5)
Essential Classics
09:00 WED (m00126y2)
Essential Classics
09:00 THU (m0012711)
Essential Classics
09:00 FRI (m001276k)
Free Thinking
22:00 TUE (m00126y4)
Free Thinking
22:00 WED (m00126zj)
Free Thinking
22:00 THU (m001271f)
Freeness
00:00 SUN (m00126tx)
Gameplay with Baby Queen
02:00 SAT (m00121dc)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 MON (m00126y8)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 TUE (m00126xq)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 WED (m00126z5)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 THU (m0012719)
In Tune Mixtape
19:00 FRI (m001276t)
In Tune
17:00 MON (m00126y1)
In Tune
17:00 TUE (m00126xl)
In Tune
17:00 WED (m00126z0)
In Tune
17:00 THU (m0012717)
In Tune
17:00 FRI (m001276r)
Inside Music
13:00 SAT (m00126tj)
J to Z
17:00 SAT (m00126tq)
Jazz Record Requests
16:00 SUN (m00126v9)
Late Junction
23:00 FRI (m0012772)
Music Matters
11:45 SAT (m00126td)
Music Matters
22:00 MON (m00126td)
Music Planet
16:00 SAT (m00126tn)
Music's Inner Vision
23:00 SUN (m00126vj)
New Generation Artists
16:30 MON (m00126xv)
New Music Show
22:00 SAT (m00126tv)
Night Tracks
23:00 MON (m00126z6)
Night Tracks
23:00 TUE (m00126yp)
Night Tracks
23:00 WED (m00126zs)
Northern Drift
21:30 MON (m00126ys)
Opera on 3
18:30 SAT (m00126ts)
Private Passions
12:00 SUN (m00126v5)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 SUN (m0012107)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 MON (m00126xk)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 TUE (m000tw3g)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 WED (m000twbq)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 THU (m000twjy)
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
13:00 FRI (m000twww)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 MON (m00126yj)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 TUE (m00126xx)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 WED (m00126zc)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 THU (m001271c)
Radio 3 in Concert
19:30 FRI (m001276w)
Record Review Extra
21:30 SUN (m00126vg)
Record Review
09:00 SAT (m00126tb)
Sound of Gaming
15:00 SAT (m00126tl)
Sunday Feature
18:45 SUN (m00126vd)
Sunday Morning
09:00 SUN (m00126v3)
Tearjerker with Jordan Rakei
01:00 SAT (m00121d9)
The Early Music Show
14:00 SUN (m00126v7)
The Essay
22:45 MON (m00126z1)
The Essay
22:45 TUE (m00126yc)
The Essay
22:45 WED (m00126zn)
The Essay
22:45 THU (m001271h)
The Essay
22:45 FRI (m0012770)
The Listening Service
17:00 SUN (m0001ss8)
The Night Tracks Mix
23:00 THU (m001271k)
The Verb
22:00 FRI (m001276y)
This Classical Life
12:30 SAT (m00126tg)
Through the Night
03:00 SAT (m00121df)
Through the Night
01:00 SUN (m00126tz)
Through the Night
00:30 MON (m00126vl)
Through the Night
00:30 TUE (m00126zd)
Through the Night
00:30 WED (m00126yz)
Through the Night
00:30 THU (m00126zx)
Through the Night
00:30 FRI (m001271p)
Unclassified
23:30 THU (m001271m)
Words and Music
17:30 SUN (m0007q5q)